That's awesome, Terry! I saw the GitHub change, but haven't had a chance to 
try it yet, but will sometime over the weekend. I glanced at your code and 
confirmed what I suspected; I would have no idea how to do that:-)

Rob..........

On Friday, June 16, 2017 at 4:58:14 PM UTC-4, Terry Brown wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 07:56:31 -0700 (PDT) 
> Largo84 <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: 
>
> > I use the backlinks plugin which works well to create links to other 
> > nodes *within* a single .leo file. However, it won't create links to 
> > nodes in other .leo files. The bookmarks plugin doesn't really do 
> > what I need either. Any suggestions on how to create links to nodes 
> > in other .leo files? Of course, I can add the UNL in the body pane, 
> > but then it clutters up the body pane. Maybe I'm missing something 
> > obvious. 
>
> Rob's idea is now implemented.  I think it's really a big enhancement 
> in node annotation in Leo.  Which perhaps means it's buried deeper in 
> the interface than it should be. 
>
> When running the backlinks plugin, the backlinks pane displays: 
>
>   [Link] [from] here [to] [mark ▼] 
>
> Clicking from / to swaps them around. 
> Clicking Link creates a link. 
> The mark pull down menu has these entries: 
>
>  - mark (wherever you placed it) 
>  - mark (undirected) (unimportant variation) 
>  - a new child of mark 
>  - URL/UNL 
>
> It's this last entry which is new.  You can enter and URL or UNL to 
> create a link from this node to that URL / UNL. 
>
> For convenience links to files or directories should start with 
> file://, paths with no protocol specified will have unl:// prepended. 
> This is convenient because it allows you to copy the default UNL view 
> from the status bar. 
>
> This allows cross outline links in backlinks, as well as links to 
> arbitrary resources (web pages, local files). 
>
> So now a plain Python file can, within Leo, have per node links to 
> relevant API web pages / pdf files etc., as well as nodes in other Leo 
> outlines. 
>
> Also added a "find next node with a link" button to the backlinks pane. 
>
> Great idea, Rob. 
>
> Cheers -Terry 
>

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